2011Pro2Serve Tennessee Math Contest

FERMAT I Version A

1. The domain of log2 ( x2 1) is: (a) x = 0 (b) x 1 or x 1 (d) 1 < x < 1 (c) x > 1 or x < 1 (e) x 0

2. If the parabola y = ax2 + bx + c has vertex (2, 2) and crosses the x-axis at x = 3, then what is ab + c equal to? (a) 7 (b) 10 (c) 1 (d) 2 (e) none of these

3. A retailer oers a 20% discount o the usual price for one of his products and still makes a prot of 20% over the cost of the product. What is the prot over the cost with the usual price of the product? (a) 25% (b) 75% (c) 50% (d) 150% (e) 100%

4. Let a, b be positive integers such that a b = 96. If the least common multiple of a and b is 24, what is the greatest common divisor of a and b? (a) 2 (b) 6 (c) 4 (d) 3 (e) none of these

5. The polynomial x4 + 4: (a) is not a product of two non-constant polynomials with real coecients (b) decomposes as a product of a polynomial of degree 1 and a polynomial of degree 3 with real coecients (c) decomposes as a product of four polynomials of degree 1 with real coecients (d) decomposes as a product of two polynomials of degree 2 with real coecients (e) none of these

6. If a/b is the reduced fraction that equals 0.571717 . . ., then a + b is: (a) 3112 (b) 1556 (c) 1167 (d) 389 (e) 778

7. Let (a, b) be a point on the circle with center at (0, 0) and radius one, with b > 0 b3 a4 and |a| = b. Then, ln 2 1 is equal to: a b2 b4 (a) ln(b) (b) 2 ln(b) (c) 1 (d) ln(b) (e) 0

8. The rst two terms of a sequence are x1 = 18 and x2 = 19. Each new term after those is the ratio of the previous two: xn+1 = xn /xn1 . What is the seventh term of the sequence? (a) 18 (b) 19 (c)
19 18

(d)

1 19

(e) none of these

9. Let f (x) =

(x + 3)(x + 2)2 (x 1) . For which of the following is f (x) positive? (x 5)2011 (b) x > 7 (c) 0 < x < 2 (e) 2 x 1 (d) 10/3 x 7/2

(a) 1 < x < 3

10. In the gure below, B , C , D are points on the circle with center O, and the lengths of the segments AB and BO are equal. If the angle COD measures radians, then the measure of the angle ABO in radians is:
C B A O D

(a)

3 4

(b)

2 3

(c)

(d)

(e)

3 2

11. If a is a positive integer with exactly 17 divisors, how many divisors does a2011 have? (a) 162011 + 1 (b) 32177 (c) 201117 (d) 172011 (e) 34187

12. A ex car can run on gasoline or on ethanol. It can drive for 374 kilometers with 34 liters of gasoline and it can drive 259 kilometers with 37 liters of ethanol. If the price of gasoline reaches 2.20 dollars per liter, what would the price (in dollars) of the liter of ethanol have to be to yield the same cost per kilometer as gasoline? (a) 1.20 (b) 1.40 (c) 1.30 (d) 1.10 (e) 1.50

13. The heights of a triangle have lengths 2, 2 and be true? (a) The triangle has an angle of 45 degrees (b) The triangle is not isosceles (c) The area of the triangle is 1.5 (d) The perimeter of the triangle is 5 (e) No such triangle exists

2. Which of the following can

14. The product (a)

101 200

1 (b)

1 22
1 2

1 32

1
1 100

1 1002 (d)
101 100

equals: (e) none of these

(c)

15. Let f (x) = x5 4x3 + 3x2 x + 1. Assuming that f (x) has 5 distinct complex roots, then what is the sum of their squares? (a) 4 (b) 10 (c) 3 (d) 8 (e) none of these

16. The smallest integer x 2 for which x100 + 1 is prime is: (a) 2 (b) 8 (c) 6 (d) 4 (e) none of these

17. Let a = 26 35 . For how many positive integers n is (a) 7 (b) 12 (c) 10 4

a is an integer? n2 (e) 6

(d) 0

18. What is the number of distinct lines in the plane which contain the origin and at least one point of integer coordinates (x, y ) with both x and y in {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}? (a) 36 (b) 24 (c) 30 (d) 26 (e) none of these

19. A doughnut shop oers three choices: chocolate, jelly and glazed. How many dierent orders of a dozen doughnuts are possible? (a) 215 (b) 37 (c) 106 (d) 55 (e) none of these

20. In the gure below, the circle with center O and radius 4 is inscribed in the right trapezoid ABCD. (The angles BAD and ADC measure 90 degrees.) If the shortest of the parallel edges of the trapezoid (CD in the gure) has length 6, whats the length of the longest of the parallel edges (AB in the gure)?
D 6 C

4 O

(a) 18

(b) 8

(c) 12

(d) 10

(e) 16

21. Let a =

3 (a) 6

8 and b = (b) 2

3+

8. Then a + b equals: (d) 3 (e) 8

(c) 3

22. The gure below shows a square of area 4, with center O and with M the midpoint of an edge.
X d O M

Consider for each point X on the square the angle between OM and OX , measured counterclockwise, and the length d of OX . Then the graph of d with respect to looks like:
d
2 1 2 1

(a)

(b)

1 2

3 2

1 2

3 2

d
2 1 2 1

(c)

(d)

1 2

3 2

d
2 1

1 2

3 2

(e)

1 2

3 2

23. Determine which of the following statements is true for any two integers a, b such that 13 divides 3a 2b. (a) 13 divides a2 + b2 (b) 13 divides a2 b2 (c) 13 divides 3a + 2b (d) 13 does not divide 5a + 3b (e) none of these

1 24. If x0 is the solution of (2x)log5 (2) (3x)log5 (3) = 0, then x0 + x 0 is:

(a)

37 6

(b)

log5 (2) + log5 (3) log5 (2) log5 (3)

(c)

log5 (3) log5 (2)

(d) 1

(e) none of these

25. Let a = 99 100 101 102. Which is true? (a) a is a perfect square (b) a + 2 is a perfect square (c) a 1 is a perfect square (d) a + 1 is a perfect square (e) a 2 is a perfect square